Tuesday, October 24, 2006

The Dog in Chris Van Allsburg's books

Awhile ago the Blue Rose Girls posted about finding the dog in Chris Van Allsburg's picture books. I did a project on Van Allsburg a long time ago and I thought some of you might like this key. I haven't added his newest book Probuditi, but if you're having trouble finding the dog it appears as a teapot on a shelf. I think if you click on my key you might be able to see a bigger copy, but if you want me to email you a copy just leave me a comment with your email address.

I also had to share this quote that I think explains a lot of Van Allsburg's work."Lucky are the children who know there is a jolly fat man in a red suit who pilots a flying sleigh. We should envy them. And we should envy the people who are so certain martians will land in their back yard that they keep a loaded Polaroid camera by the back door. The inclination to believe in the fantastic may strike some as a failure in logic, or gullibility, but it's really a gift. A world that might have Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster in clearly superior to one that definitely does not."- Chris Van Allsburg

36 comments:

Anonymous
said...

Marcel from The Sweetest Fig isn't Fritz "the dog." I always thought he was, but I read somewhere that Fritz is on the label of a wine bottle in the kitchen. I never realized until I read that, but Marcel doesn't have the brown around his eye...

Could you please email me at mariap2468@gmail.com. Thank you. My class is starting a project on him and my teacher said thatat the end of it we'll have to find the dogs in his books. Also, if you have any good sites for chris van allsburg that would help. Thanks!